There is now less than 2 weeks before the opening Gala of the 2012 Caribbean Tales Film Festival, and another member of the annual Incubator Program people might want to watch out for is 20-year-old Trinidadian Claire Hamel-Smith.
At the 2011 annual Anime Caribe Animation Festival in Port-of-Spain her animated series the The Upstarts won her a scholarship to attend this year's Incubator. The Upstarts is yet another sitcom out of Trinidad & Tobago, and it follows the misadventures of Phil Broker. Phil is called in after his last boss had a mental breakdown and told he must oversee a team of lunatic animators to keep the company afloat.
"I think the CaribbeanTales Incubator will be a great opportunity for Lab206," the lead writer of The Upstarts says. Lab206 is a Multimedia Design and Animation studio co-founded by Hamel-Smith in 2012. "The series is loosely based on our own experiences building the company," she explains. "I'm so proud of my team. We really worked hard on our pitch and I'm glad it paid off. We want the world to know Trinidad has talent and stories to tell."
Here's more information on Lab206 and The Upstarts. Don't forget to follow CaribbeanTales on Twitter and Facebook. And don't forget that you need to buy tickets for some of our screenings, which you can do by clicking on the film of your choice at the Harbourfront website.
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